Day 18

I'm still alive. You may have guessed from the title, or then you may have thought that someone i.e. Sam would be telling you that I died last night regretfully.

Myself and Sam immediately decided to stay here another night. It's safe, and we can plan a hell of a lot better with the view. We can also use it to ensure, as much as possible, I won't change tonight, or even today.

If I am not to change (which I am now a lot more confident that I will not) we have established one of the following:

1) I am immune
2) The scratch was not enough to infect me
3) You actually have to die to change (this could mean any death could change, and it's the attacks by Rani that bring on death, thus the change, not the other way)
4) I may still change, but I still have time
5) Infection isn't spread that way

I'm not sure which of the five it falls under; in fact it could fall under any number of other things that we have not considered. I personally quite like 1 and 3, they mean I have to die to lose everything.
But until we know for certain. No unnecessary risks.

I actually awoke to my alarm today. Set for 6am for when I worked. It only goes off weekdays, but I don't remember it going off before today, unless I have automatically switched it off before waking up enough
I thought about the safeness of work with security gates, but then, what is designed to keep things out, also keeps things in. I don't fancy being that trapped. Plus the gates are electronic, so I didn't fancy having to climb a fence to escape the Rani...

I decided to call Sam to wake her before I got up and moved about, last thing I wanted was to terrify her. Just as I called her I heard a roar. This... I hadn't heard anything like it in days... But I was sure I had heard it since the end of the world... It was a car. I went to get up then fell over forgetting the handcuff. I unlocked myself and stood again, by now Sam was by my side staring. The Dodge Ram slammed into the corner of a stopped car and itself stopped; It had a make shift cover on the back section, making it look like a truck more than it should. Two men got out of the back section and another from the passenger seat and they looked around, all had varying sizes of rifles, the real ones. I could see her excitement, but my two encounters with groups of people had left me cynical over more help.
I ducked and pulled her down, with her protests.

"Listen. I haven't told you about Day 4 yet, but you know about my leg and what caused it." She nodded "There's a chance they could be the ones who tried to kill me. Yeah it could have been a mistake on their part but we're doing fine, why place a risk on them?"
Gun shots rang out. I peered above the window ledge and saw they were firing vaguely up.
"What are they doing? They'll attract the Rani!"
"Maybe they want to, maybe they are making the risk to try and get people to find them" She urged
"I've made my decision. I'm not going, if you do and wanna bring them back here I'll be gone" I stared into her eyes. She relented, and in time. The Rani arrived shortly after and even over the shots of the men, I could hear laughter. They were revelling in the death around them, God knows what they would do to us.

The Rani still advanced towards the men, and eventually they retreated down Whitecross Road with some Rani in tow. As usual most remained to dispose of their brothers and sisters.

In the men's wake we were left with a large mass of corpses in the road, mostly eaten and Rani now littered the surrounding area. Just our luck it seemed. What was bad that within hours the smell of the dead had reached us. What was worse is that now I can't smell it, though it is still there.

Just before the smell reached us, we took the calm that had risen as a chance to get to the roof and check the surroundings.
The path to the station seems deceptively clear. All I can think of now is to get to a farm house in the middle of nowhere and just hide forever using the crops to live. Never thought I would be an idealist, but thinking I was going to die has made me think; and I've never thought so clearly.

I missed the sunrise, as it was obstructed by the buildings, but I saw the sunset. Today was worth it, even though we accomplished so little physically. We talked again, it's just so strange; it makes these days seem almost normal. Talking about life before and after, joking about the stupid things, and then forgetting to talk for a while. It helps us forget that we are less than 50metres away at any point from a Rani right now.

But we plan for an early day tomorrow so I end here.

I hope you make another day